Dario Argento Panico Review: Unpacking the Personas of the Iconic Italian Director
There are really three Dario Argentos in Simone Scafidi’s new documentary, Dario Argento Panico, and together they form a kind of Unholy Trinity. There is Dari...
Oliver Weir
The Peasants Trailer: Hand-Painted Animation From Loving Vincent Directors Opens This Month
With Loving Vincent, the directors DK and Hugh Welchman attempted something that had never been done before: to create and edit together 65,000 oil paintings i...
The Teachers’ Lounge Review: Germany’s Oscar Entry is an Engrossing Yet Contrived Thriller
In a penetrating essay on the life and work of Salvador Dalí, George Orwell observed the following about intellectual ambition: “It seems to be, if not the rul...
BFI London Review: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Expands the Flock in Clever Ways
Many people (this reviewer included) scoffed at the announcement of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Something about the ludicrous title and 23-year hiatus gav...
BFI London Review: Starve Acre Finds Matt Smith Stuck in a Preposterous Folk Horror Tale
With great success comes great expectation, and I doubt that Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre will quite live up to the favorable notices of his first feature, t...
Godzilla Minus One Trailer Gives Monster-Sized Look at Toho-Produced Blockbuster
Since it first terrorized Tokyo in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 film, Godzilla has faced off against nearly every single kaiju known to man—Mothra, Ghidorah, Megalon, G...
Jim Jarmusch Will Never See a Star Wars Film: “I Resent That I Know So Much About Them”
Jim Jarmusch has undoubtedly been the most visible peripheral filmmaker of the last thirty years. Since his jagged rise to fame in the mid-1980s, he has worked...
Armando Iannucci Mounts First Stage Adaptation of a Stanley Kubrick Film
It’s fair to say the aggressive alien hand syndrome, dubious German accents, and missile rodeoing of Dr. Strangelove have come to occupy a special place in the...
Steven Soderbergh Announces Surprise Release of New Michael Cera-Led Series Command Z
Update: The entire eight-episode series is now available to watch here for $7.99, with all proceeds going to charity.
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